Mission Raceway October 21,2000

Mission Raceway Park Saturday October 21, 2000

Day began with this major toaster.

He drives it in, he drives it out. Gassed '57 sedan went 9.68/122.23 today, and I believe it went low sixties last weekend. One of the all-time killer street shoeboxes ever in these parts!

Al Hampton ran ten thirties and went to semis in cash bash.

First time out blown/carbed Camaro (small block I think) ran 10.69/126.33

Neat, early, bottled Mustang went 10.48/123.81

Sangha was on slicks went 8.92/137, and tossed the main belt...again!...along with ripping the bearing clean out of the end of a high-dollar supercharger brace. Mile per hour was almost 20 under, so a record run was there. He went home very frustrated today, was even talking about tubbing it for the first time. "I had tire shake out there today like I've NEVER had before" he said. Watching this car make those heavily muffled passes provides a view of true horsepower like few other cars I have ever had the pleasure of watching go down a drag strip.

Have a boo at that tire rolling over itself on this run. The 7.62 178.62 had more potential, but just like Braid, Don Murray discovered at about seven and a half seconds it gets lots harder to get better. With fresh Ropar, Western Canada's quickest street leagl car could not hook the last third of the race track.

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Hafner left LARGE...but got out of it and coasted thru.

Another rookie outing, that saw it leaving way easy, huffed mouse pushed five window to muffled, DOT tired 10.20/129.81!

A pair of friends who came off of awesome seasons in 1999, and whose reigns will now end. J.Glenn Miller of SuperWebHost.com on his Suzuki and Jimmy Behnke in one of the baddest bracket cars in the Division. Hi Bob, you watchin?

He's probably the most traveled racer in B.C., and Shawn Kvass was trying to run 11's today but came up just a few thou short. About six to be exact. Will be at Phoenix and maybe Dallas AND Houston thanks to today's rain out in Texas. He's run in three divisions in 2000 and was today saying that he would soon be putting his thoughts on the season together down on paper. Hopefully he will share that with us here at HH, as I'm certain it would be a fair, concise view of things at drag strips all over the west.

Mike Shannon...yup THAT Mike Shannon had "the car of my dreams" out for the first time. Before he settled Davis Corvette down it wheelstood to a 9.50/147. Had more than one squirrly half track 'adventure' and was a favorite with the spectators who journeyed out here today under cloudy morning skies that after 1pm opened out into bright sunny skies. Tomorrow may be ok after all.

Dean Murdoch set the ET record for the Northwest Drag School S/C car at 8.51/153. It was a successfull first year for the new company, and despite a problem securing track time due to previous events at MRP, hope to have that little item wrapped up for 2001.

This probably was about how Rob Murphy looked last weekend on his spectacular, sideways ride...

...in the bitchin' 100" wheelbase KB Daytona. A Mopar lovers wet dream, the Nutrilife Dodge ran a best 7.51 at only 173 today in only pass of day.

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